Five killed, 20 injured in Gun Attack On Serbian Cafe in the village festival "Chicken Fest

A gunman killed five people and injured at least 20 others early Saturday when he opened fire with an automatic weapon in a crowded cafe in northern Serbia, police said. The suspect was arrested.

The attack occurred at 01:40 a.m. local time in a village(Žitište) close to the town of , Zrenjanin, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Belgrade.

"Makijato" cafe (foto - Reuters)

Gunman killer Z.S.

A police statement says a man identified only as Z.S. first killed his wife and another woman before randomly shooting at other occupants of the "Makijato" cafe.

Victim D.S

Witnesses told Serbia's state TV that the attacker came to the cafe
and saw his wife there with a group of friends. He then went home and
came back with a gun.
"He just pulled out a gun and started shooting, first into the air," one of the witnesses, Svetozar Manojlovic, said.
"It
sounded like firecrackers at first," he said. "Then the guy next to me
fell down and others started falling down. It was total chaos."
Cafe
owner Ljubomir Milinovic said people didn't immediately grasp what was
going on. The cafe was packed with people enjoying a hot summer night.
"It
was horrible, people were screaming and there was blood everywhere,"
Milinovic said. "We immediately started rushing people to the hospital
and ambulances soon arrived."
Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa
Stefanovic said that the cafe guests eventually managed to grab the
weapon from the man's hands when he tried to run away. Police in the
vicinity arrived swiftly and caught the suspect, Stefanovic said.
He said that the probable motive was jealousy.

Victims of the massacre in Zitiste

Stefanovic said the automatic weapon was illegal. He appealed to
citizens to hand over illegal weapons that many people have following
the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s.
"This was completely
unexpected," Stefanovic said, speaking in front of the "Makijato" cafe
in the village of Zitiste. "There were no signs at all, people tell us
that he was completely calm and normal," he said.
Last year, a man
killed six people with a hunting rifle in northern Serbia, while in
2013 a Balkan war veteran killed 13 people in a shooting spree in a
central Serbian village.
The tragedies shocked the nation and sparked a public debate about the amount of weapons left over from the 1990s conflict.

Zitiste "Rocky" monument

The
wounded from Zitiste were taken to hospitals in nearby Zrenjanin and
Novi Sad. Doctors in Zrenjanin said seven people underwent operation and
were in serious condition.
Local authorities said they will declare a three-day mourning starting Sunday.